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Convention on Police Cooperation aims at suppressing organised crime, increasing safety
Belgrade,
18 July 2007
Serbian Minister of Interior Dragan Jocic stated today that the Convention on Police Cooperation in Southeastern Europe envisages the strengthening of police cooperation in the region with the aim of more efficient suppression of organised crime and increase of safety.
Dragan Jocic
Author:
Fonet
Elaborating the Bill on confirmation of the Convention at the Serbian parliament, Jocic said it essentially regulates the narrow and open cooperation between two or more countries in the region and should particularly contribute to the harmonisation of cross-border police cooperation in the region.
He explained that for Serbia, the Convention would be an important step towards the EU and stressed it would be the first document to seriously regulate police cooperation in the region.
According to Jocic, the Convention gives a strong legal basis for joint work of countries signatories and regulates the cooperation and exchange of police information, witness protection programmes, joint training, data sharing and mixed border control.
The Convention is open to all countries that wish to sign it and they are no preconditions for them to join it. They can also back out of it, explained the Minister and recalled that the drafting first began in 2005 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Serbia-Montenegro signed the Convention on May 5, 2006 in Vienna and Serbia should now confirm this agreement since it is the successor country of the former sate union.
Implementation of the Convention should further strengthen police cooperation with other countries in the region, and those who have signed the Convention so far are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova and Romania.
He explained that for Serbia, the Convention would be an important step towards the EU and stressed it would be the first document to seriously regulate police cooperation in the region.
According to Jocic, the Convention gives a strong legal basis for joint work of countries signatories and regulates the cooperation and exchange of police information, witness protection programmes, joint training, data sharing and mixed border control.
The Convention is open to all countries that wish to sign it and they are no preconditions for them to join it. They can also back out of it, explained the Minister and recalled that the drafting first began in 2005 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Serbia-Montenegro signed the Convention on May 5, 2006 in Vienna and Serbia should now confirm this agreement since it is the successor country of the former sate union.
Implementation of the Convention should further strengthen police cooperation with other countries in the region, and those who have signed the Convention so far are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova and Romania.
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